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Kyle Rittenhouse spoke on campus at an event hosted by the WKU Turning Point USA chapter, addressing supporters and opposition on the evening of Wednesday, March 27. Rittenhouse shot three men — two of whom died — at a Black Lives Matter protest in Kenosha, Wisconsin in 2020, using a semi automatic AR-15 style rifle...
Protestors and supporters all flocked to Western Kentucky University on Wednesday as Kyle Rittenhouse, the subject of a controversial murder trial in Wisconsin throughout 2020 and 2021 before being acquitted
Student Activities is running a donation drive for WKU’s Food Pantry from now until March 15. The WKU Food Pantry is a resource provided by the Office of Sustainability that allows students, staff and campus partners at WKU to acquire an assortment of foods and toiletries. Each month, Student Activities partners with a “Volunteer in...
Music education sophomore Sylvia Dodd inherited a subgroup of the Queer Student Union called Trans Non-Binary, or TNB, but when nobody showed up to the group’s last meeting of the term, Dodd decided to start anew. The Gender Identity Alliance is a student organization that aims to “raise awareness about something that is not the...
Students interested in playing 8-ball pool at WKU now have the chance – with the Hilltopper 8-Ball Pool Club, formed last spring. WKU junior journalism major Colby Alexander and junior Luke Clements explained their surprise in discovering there was no organization for students to gather and play the game. “We spent all of our time...